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William Whittlesey (or Whittlesea) (d. 1374), was a Bishop of Rochester, then Bishop of Worcester, then finally Archbishop of Canterbury.

Life

He was probably born in the Cambridgeshire village of Whittlesey, England.
He was educated at Oxford, and owing principally to the fact that he was a nephew of Simon Islip, archbishop of Canterbury, he received numerous ecclesiastical preferments; he held prebends at Lichfield, Chichester and Lincoln, and livings at Ivychurch, Croydon and Cliffe.
Later he was appointed vicar-general, and then dean of the court of arches by Islip. On October 23 1360 he became Bishop of Rochester and was consecrated on February 6 1362. Two years after his consecration he was transferred to the bishopric of Worcester on March 6 1364. On October 11 1368 Whittlesey was transferred to the archbishopric of Canterbury in succession to Simon Langham, but his term of office was very uneventful, a circumstance due partly, but not wholly, to his feeble health. He died at Lambeth on the 5th or 6th of June 1374.

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